The data available for assessing the current status and trends of global poverty has significantly improved. And yet … serious contentions remain. At the same time, a set of recent papers has sought to use these datasets to make poverty … even current) global poverty even though their estimates are all derived from the same basic (PPP and distribution …

This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and … then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being … that this historical data can inform understanding and appreciation of what it would involve to end global poverty in the …

This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both ‘old', 2005 and ‘new', 2011 … of 2011 PPP data to estimate global poverty and inequality, at least for comparison purposes …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

poverty gap can be decomposed into our axiomatic measures of fiscal impoverishment and gains. We also establish dominance … reform, for a range of possible poverty lines. We illustrate using Brazilian data …

between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP dollar). They are well above the international poverty line, but still vulnerable to … falling back into poverty and hence not part of the secure middle class. In a first step, we use long-term growth projections …

but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning … that national resources are available but not being used to end poverty? This paper argues that approximately three …-quarters of global poverty, at least at the lower poverty lines, could now be eliminated — in principle — via redistribution of …

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the … already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of GDP. And … to end at least extreme poverty. This would imply a reframing of global poverty as largely a matter of domestic …